Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famed 91-lb. frame, recorded an album (Twiggy) of country-and-western music to be released this summer and just completed her first TV acting role. In a British documentary series called Queen Victoria's Scandals, Twigs plays the part of a 19th century spiritualist, complete with straitlaced Victorian corsets. Her expanded measurements (32-24-34) did not require stays, but her costume did. Says Twiggy of it all: "A bit painful...
Cassie Levitt, Lora Fleming, and Laura Brown were on course for the 'Cliffe as they triumphed on Saturday in the first annual Victorian Coffee Cup regatta on the Charles...
...equality with men and are willing to look feminine again. What is more womanly than bare shoulders?" Cynthia Margulies, fashion coordinator for Raleighs in Washington, senses a conflict in female emotions. Explains she: "Women don't know if they want to be daring and sexy or romantic and Victorian. These new tops bare the shoulder. But some of them come in puckered gingham. They're selling like mad and it's because women want to look old-fashioned and virginal and sexy all at once...
...improper and unpleasant to reveal anything about sex," Travers felt he could create characters like Alma, the heroine of Bed. By the last act, Alma is chasing her fatigued new husband back into the bedroom; audiences affectionately cheer her on to a rendezvous that completes the comic transformation from Victorian prude to exuberant earth mother...
...right, porn may eventually exhaust itself, having run out of new taboos to conquer. Yet in his 1966 study of Victorian pornography, Columbia Professor Steven Marcus described the porn impulse as "insatiable." Slade and Marcus may be making the same point: it was precisely the repressive nature of prudery that created a taboo-rich culture in which Victorian porn fantasies could take exotic shape. But if the porn industry finds no limits, it could perhaps reawaken the American taste for censorship. The very thought is anathema to most Americans. The danger is that it may be found more supportable than...